Duration
15 June 2012 → 30 June 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- General biology
- Plant biology
Keywords
plant development
ethylene signaling
feedback
ethylene
ethylene biosynthesis
Project description
Ethylene (ethene) plays a major role in vegetative development and stress responses in plants. Current research is focused on feedback machanisms between ethylene signaling and biosynthesis, and the effects of small molecules on the ethylene pathway. Accurate measurement of minute amounts of ethylene emanating from plant is obtained with a laser-based photoacoustic detector.
